Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- waning-cupola-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Little Witley
- OS grid reference
- SO 782 635
- Coordinates
- 52.26933, -2.3199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a parish church with 13th century foundations that was rebuilt in 1867, likely by S.W. Perkins. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar and features a tiled roof in the Early English style. The church has a nave with a south porch, a north vestry, and an apsidal chancel. The nave consists of three bays and includes an octagonal bell-cote at the west end, which is supported by three columns with stiff-leaf capitals. The bell-cote has decorative closed sides, a conical cap, and a finial. The windows are pointed arched with Y-tracery and stiff-leaf capitals on the responds, flanked by hoodmoulds and stiff-leaf stops.
The timber-framed gabled porch has a doorway that resembles the window surrounds, featuring a moulded archway and stiff-leaf ornament. The church has buttressing at the west end and at the chancel arch. A semi-circular headed doorway on the north face is the only remnant of the earlier church. The two-bay chancel has simple lancet windows. Inside, the nave has a trussed rafter roof supported on stiff-leaf corbels, and the pointed chancel arch mirrors the design of the doorway and window surrounds, being supported on two orders with stiff-leaf capitals.
Local climate
Church of St Michael receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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